Starr—not related to the Clinton prosecutor with the same
name—was arrested on Thursday alongside former Manhattan borough
president Andy Stein and accused of running a Ponzi
scheme on a client roster drawn from Hollywood, major league
sports, and

Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, Wesley Snipes, and Annie Leibowitz
are all former clients, and Uma Thurman was named in the criminal
complaint). According to the U.S. attorney, Starr funneled money
to his son and his wife—Diane Passage, who just so happens to be
a
former Scores stripper and pole dancing enthusiast.

Here she is.

Passage is the founder of a group called Pole Superstar,
which puts on a pole
dancing competition. Its mission is to "recognize the
increasing interest in pole dancing as a sport, fitness activity
and art form, worldwide." She has also guest-blogged at Pumps Mag, "the
voice of the exotic dancing industry," where she posted most of
these pictures.

People ask why I'm not holding this event in Vegas. It's
because these girls don't do what strippers do. New Yorkers are
more understanding of pole dancing as a sport.

Huh. Pole Superstar, we should note, says that it "benefitted a
new organization called
S.P.I.N. (Single Parents In Need)," which is apparently a
charity founded by the very busy Passage. Her bio also claims
that she's working on a movie adaptation of Larry McMurtry's book
Desert Rose, about which she wrote this on Pumps:

Coincidentally, I have the movie rights to Larry McMurtry's
novel The Desert Rose, which is a story about a Las Vegas
showgirl. I obtained the rights about five years ago and started
working on the movie with Martin Bregman, whose films include
Scarface, Serpico, The Bone Collector, and more. This movie has
been a slow process since I manage multiple projects, but I feel
like my involvement with the Pole Superstar Las Vegas show will
help me along with the movie since there are similar elements.
The Desert Rose is about an aging Las Vegas showgirl whose
underage daughter is being groomed to take the mother's place as
the star of the show. The story merges female competitiveness
with mother/daughter tension – something that women can relate
to, in the enticing Vegas setting that men can relate to.

The criminal complaint details some of the nice things Passage
got from her husband, including a $70,000 diamond bracelet and a
$32,000 wedding band

It's also got a description of the $7.5 million condo they
bought, which has a pool:

It's unclear how much Passage was aware of her husband's alleged
fraud, and her pole dancing advocacy had nothing to do, directly,
with Ponzi scheming. That we know of. That being said: She seems
way more fun than Ruth Madoff.